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Cauliflower, chickpea and green bean pilaf

Favourite frozen choices, like peas, spinach or broccoli florets, are perfect in this versatile dish.

Favourite frozen choices, like peas, spinach or broccoli florets, are perfect in this versatile dish.

Cooking Time

Cook: 30 Mins

Cooking Time

Serves: 4

Cooking Time

Price: £0.85 per serving

Nutritional Information

Each 350g serving contains

Energy
7536kj
515kcal
26%
Fat
9.1g
Low
13%
Saturates
0.7g
Low
4%
Sugars
14g
Low
16%
Salt
0.98g
Low
16%
3
of your 5-a-day
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
2153kj/515kcal

Ingredients

3 Garlic Cloves, sliced

2 tbsp Vegetable or Olive Oil

5 tsp Mild Curry Powder

300g Easy Cook Long Grain Rice

75g Mango Chutney

900ml Vegetable Stock, made from 1 cube

2 Lemons, one zested and juiced, one cut into wedges

1 Red Onion, finely chopped

400g Frozen Cauliflower Florets

300g Frozen Green Beans

400g Tin Chickpeas, drained and rinsed

20g Fresh Coriander

Method

1
Use a large saucepan with a lid. Add the garlic and oil and fry for 1–2 mins until fragrant. Stir in the curry powder for 20 secs, followed by the rice and stir to coat all the grains in the spices. Set aside 2 tsp of the mango chutney in a small mixing bowl, then add the rest to the rice with the stock. Bring to the boil, then cover the pan and turn the heat down to low. Simmer the rice for 10 mins.
2
Mix lemon juice and zest into the reserved mango chutney with salt and pepper. Add the finely chopped red onion, and stir occasionally to pickle.
3
After 8 mins simmering stir the frozen cauliflower, green beans and chickpeas into the rice. Re-cover and cook for another 8–10 mins until the rice and veg is tender. Turn off the heat and leave to stand for 5 mins.
4
Finely chop the coriander, including the stalks, then stir everything through the pickled red onion mixture.
5
Serve the pilaf scattered with the red onion pickle along with extra lemon wedges on the side for squeezing over.